Above Suspicion

Movie Ranked #1395 | 2021 - Action, Biography, Crime, Thriller
The story that leads to the first conviction for murder of an FBI agent.The chilling true story of a newly married F.B.I. poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the foundations of the nation's top law enforcement agency, ending in the first ever conviction of an F.B.I. Agent for murder.Based on real-life events, this is a bombshell of a movie which centers ... More from IMDb
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Best two reviews:
1) - Chris Gerolmo’s script isn’t at great pains to find the human factor here, and Phillip Noyce’s direction coats the whole unhappy affair in cold blue steel. (Rating: 60) Read Full Review >
2) - Though tech values and supporting performances (especially Knoxville's) are unimpeachable, Suspicion doesn't conjure its setting as persuasively as some of the other drug-centric rural dramas we've seen lately. (Rating: 60) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
3) - What Above Suspicion lacks in flashy direction, it makes up for in strong performances and gripping true-life material to draw from. (Rating: 60) Read Full Review >
4) - A reality-based hillbilly thriller that can’t decide what flavour of noir to serve up, Above Suspicion is one of those curious failures that the current appetite for home streaming often rescues from theatrical limbo. (Rating: 50) Read Full Review >
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